# Rob Reiner called Hillary Clinton the most qualified presidential candidate ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 5, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122 "2013-11-05T03:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/81 "2013-11-10T02:41:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > She had two terms as a Senator and one as Secretary of State. I guess I’d consider that relevant experience, but most presidential candidates have more. There’s no experience more relevant than the Presidency itself, and failing that, the Vice Presidency, and she’s also never been a governor, or even large-city mayor. > > No, I do not count her husband’s experience at all, since she is not her husband. While Clinton won 2 senatorial elections, she didn’t serve 2 terms, as she served only 8 years as senator, being appointed Sec of State in 2009. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/82 "2013-11-10T20:05:07Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > She was a senator for eight years, so it’s more like a term and a third. That’s worth almost 2.5 Palin Units. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/83 "2013-11-28T15:56:17Z")
Meryl Streep [paid tribute to Hillary’s qualities a year ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECNQDqMoAjw). Worth watching by any open-minded person doubting that Hillary is inspirational. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/84 "2016-02-19T15:25:04Z")
Bringing back the zombie thread from so long ago that I casually referred to Jeb Bush as the smart one, prompting **Jonathan Chance** to refer to him as “top tier”. ::tumbleweeds:: The point is, just like nobody raised an eyebrow at that then, none of us thought to mention former mayor Bernie Sanders, who’s now been a Senator for nine years after serving in the House of Representatives for sixteen years; and none of us thought to mention John Kasich, who spent eighteen years in Congress and is currently in his sixth year as Governor; who’d have thunk _they’d_ be out winning delegates? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/85 "2016-02-19T15:28:03Z")
Her resume is quite good but hardly the best ever. Sorry, Mr. Reiner, but you sound like a meathead with that one. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/86 "2016-02-19T15:34:48Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Her resume is quite good but hardly the best ever. Sorry, Mr. Reiner, but you sound like a meathead with that one. You know you posted in this thread before it got resurrected, right? 🙂 At that, Bob Dole probably should’ve gotten an explicit rundown the first time around: the military officer turned county attorney spent eight years in Congress before spending _decades_ as a Senator before running for President in '96. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/87 "2016-02-19T15:38:02Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > You know you posted in this thread before it got resurrected, right? 🙂 > > At that, Bob Dole probably should’ve gotten an explicit rundown the first time around: the military officer turned county attorney spent eight years in Congress before spending _decades_ as a Senator before running for President in '96. Oh yeah but I missed the meathead joke then. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/88 "2016-02-19T16:31:37Z")
Heh. So long as this is back up and running, shouldn’t Kerry and McCain’s candidacies have gotten discussed? One was a guy named John who served as a military officer before getting elected to the Senate in the '80s, before getting re-elected in the '90s, before getting \*re-\*re-elected in the '90s, before getting re-re-\*re-\*elected in the '00s, before eventually running for President, and – well, so was the other guy. One was in the House of Representatives while the other was Lieutenant Governor, but that’s hardly the point. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/89 "2016-02-19T19:11:28Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > The point is, just like nobody raised an eyebrow at that then, none of us thought to mention former mayor Bernie Sanders, who’s now been a Senator for nine years after serving in the House of Representatives for sixteen years It’s strange because I can remember way back when Sanders was the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. It certainly never would have occurred to me back then that he would someday be a leading Presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/90 "2016-02-19T19:32:37Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s strange because I can remember way back when Sanders was the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. It certainly never would have occurred to me back then that he would someday be a leading Presidential candidate. But if you’d said back then that a Jew and a woman would be neck-and-neck in the race to follow a black commander-in-chief – all of whom agree that our openly gay soldiers of course have the right to get married – I would’ve replied, _sure, but which one polls better against the GOP’s leading Latino candidates for president?_ (“Ronald REAGAN? The ACTOR? Ha! Then who’s vice-president, Jerry LEWIS?”) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122/91 "2016-02-21T10:39:26Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > She’s a lawyer by training, who was married to the governor of Arkansas, married to the President, later became a senator, and then Secretary of State. > > It’s a good resume. I don’t know about “most qualified candidate ever.” Off the top of my head, George H. W. Bush’s resume prior to the presidency was more impressive, along with, say, Eisenhower’s. > > She’s certainly smart and qualified. But if not for her husband, she wouldn’t even be in the running. I think that it’s only fair to leave off the 'whom she was married to" aspect of your post. By that qualification, Barbara Bush is 40% as qualified as Hillary, not to mention being a mother to a President… Strange utterances by Rob Reiner are nothing new. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rob-reiner-called-hillary-clinton-the-most-qualified-presidential-candidate-ever/673122.md?page=4)